{"product_id":"9780062124272","title":"Flight Behavior : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFlight Behavior\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndie Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazon Best Book of the Month\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndie Next Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Book of the Year: New York Times Notable, Washington Post Notable, Amazon Editor’s Choice, USA Today’s Top Ten (#1), St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrize-winning author: Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award), Orange Prize for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrize-winning Author: National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Orange Prize for Fiction, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lacuna\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Orange Prize), \u003cem\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/em\u003e (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and \u003cem\u003eAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle\u003c\/em\u003e, Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. \u003cem\u003eFlight Behavior\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions—religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians—trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world. \u003cem\u003eFlight Behavior\u003c\/em\u003e is arguably Kingsolver's must thrilling and accessible novel to date, and like so many other of her acclaimed works, represents contemporary American fiction at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Drawing on both her Appalachian roots and her background in biology, Kingsolver delivers a passionate novel on the effects of global warming.”\u003cbr\u003e“With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message… a clarion call about climate change, too lucid and vivid for even skeptics to ignore.”\u003cbr\u003e“…Enthralling…Dellarobia is appealingly complex as a smart, curious, warmhearted woman desperate to-no resisting the metaphor here-trade her cocoon for wings.”\u003cbr\u003e“A dazzling page-turner”\u003cbr\u003e“Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change. And her ability to put these silent, breathtakingly beautiful butterflies at the center of this calamitous and noisy debate is nothing short of brilliant.”\u003cbr\u003e“Dellarobia is a smart, fierce, messy woman, and one can’t help rooting for her to find her wings.”\u003cbr\u003e“Dellarobia is appealingly complex as a smart, curious, warmhearted woman desperate to-no resisting the metaphor here-trade her cocoon for wings.”\u003cbr\u003e“One of the gifts of a Kingsolver novel is the resplendence of her prose. She takes palpable pleasure in the craft of writing, creating images that stay with the reader long after her story is done…(a) majestic and brave new novel.”\u003cbr\u003e“Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe. This is a fine and complex novel.”\u003cbr\u003e“So captivating is this grand, suspenseful plot and the many subplots rising and falling beneath it that it takes some time before we realize what this story is really about -- climate change.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062124272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41096807874766,"sku":"9780062124272","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062124272_f9ee0f20-bc54-467b-a222-b62b6f14ba3c.jpg?v=1652088256","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062124272","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}